I finally managed to watch this movie a few days ago, and found it to be pretty much what I expected. It was a very limited plot designed to connect the various violent scenes and special effects. Fortunately those were good.
It’s nice to get this without paying for it (Netflix), but if you’d like some mindless diversion that’s fun, it’s the movie for you. If you want a story, well, not so much.
Over the weekend my wife watched (or started to watch) three movies, and I thought I would comment on them. First was X-Men: The Last Stand. Just like it’s two predessors, this was a horrible movie, and I didn’t finish watching it. My wife managed to get to the end by skipping forward a lot….
This is not precisely a review, but more of a personal account of experiencing this movie. Even after it arrived from Netflix, it sat on top of our television for a couple of weeks. It never quite seemed the time to watch it. Finally my wife, who is better at diving into these things than…
I despised the latest Star Trek movie, but if they had used this ending I might have changed my mind. (HT: Exploring Our Matrix)
Dorothy Sayers’s Lord Peter mysteries are among my favorite mystery books, so I was happy to find this collection of videos. I have to confess that I really didn’t like Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, but Edward Petheridge is much more convincing in the part. Harriet Walter is a convincing Harriet Vane. The story…
I ran across the first and fifth of this series of DVDs on our local public library shelf while looking for other mysteries and took it home on an impulse. It was a good impulse! This is not the sort of humorous light stuff that I often watch or read for relaxation, nor is it…
… you think that completely throwing all sense of reality to the wind makes an action scene “best.” Yeah, I know. Action scenes aren’t generally all that realistic, but this one is special. Fun to watch too! HT: Zeray Gazette
